Filing device



Dec. 30, 1958 H. R. ANDERSON 2,356,677

FILING DEVICE Filed March 26, 1956 IN V EN TOR. HAROLD R. ANDERSON BYChis AT TORNEK Patented Dec. 30, 1958 FILING DEVICE Harold R. Anderson,Lewistown, Pa.

Application March 26, 1956, Serial N 0. 573,985

1 (llaim. (Cl. 312-320) This invention relates to filing devices, filingcompartments, filing cabinets, safe deposit boxes, and in general,

to containers of papers, documents, securities and the like.

In most banks, offices, safe deposit drawers or filing cabinet drawersare kept removably in cabinets from which the drawers are removed whenthe papers, documents or securities kept therein require handling. Inview of the fact that these drawers are usually deep, and the paperskept therein usually in upright position, rest on the bottom, thehandling is awkward, difiicult and inefiicient.

To overcome this difficulty, the invention at hand provides for a filingdrawer in which the bottom of the drawer-together with the contentssupported by samemay be raised temporarily within the drawer permittingease of operation while the drawer is outside the cabinet and in actualuse. When work is completed, the bottom is lowered into its originalposition and the drawer may be replaced into the cabinet.

The purpose of the invention is, therefore, to provide a filing box orfiling drawer with a bottom which may be raised or lowered within thewalls of said box or filing drawer; another purpose is to create afiling device which permits ease of operation and efficiency of handlingof papers filed. Other purposes and novel features of the invention willbecome apparent from the following specification if considered togetherwith the drawing attached hereto forming part thereof, in which:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a filing box embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a section of Fig.1 along line 22, with the bottom in raisedposition;

Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. 1 along line 2-2, with the bottom in loweredposition.

Fig; 4 is a section of Fig. 1 along line 4-4.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the drawmgs.

Looking at Figs. 1 to 4, the filing device consists of an outer boxcontaining an inner double bottom 12 supporting the file separators andfiled material 11 inside said outer box 10. This inner bottom 12 ispreferably provided with short sides lengthwise 13 and 14 to keep thefiled material and separators 11 in place, and with a full-size wall 16in the rear having a handle 16. This inner bottom 12 rests on supportingwalls 18 and 19 mounted to said double bottom by the hinges 20 and 21which supporting walls fold under said bottom 12 in lowered positionshown in Fig. 3, or support said bottom 12 within the outer box 10 asshown in Fig. 2, depending on their position. These supporting walls 18and 19 are attached to handle 17 by means of crossbars 22 and 23 whichcrossbars are attached by hinging means 26 and 27 to said supportingwalls 18 and 19, and by hinging means 24 and 25 to the handle 17, andare held together in the center by a rivet 28.

From this arrangement it is clear that when handle 17 is raised, thesupporting walls 18 and 19 will be held fiat against the inner bottom12, so that the entire file material 11 will be within the confines ofthe outer box 10. However, by lifting the rear handle 16' and pressingdown on the front handle 17, the inner bottom 12 will be raised and willremain in its raised position inside of the outer box 10 supported bysupporting walls 18 and 19, as long as such raised position is desiredfor easier access to the contents. When work is completed, the contents11 can be again lowered within the confines of the outer box 10 bypulling up on handle 17, thereby folding supporting walls 18 and 19under the inner bottom 12.

Of course, other changes in arrangement and parts may be made, othersupporting and arresting means substituted as equivalents for the meansshown in the attached drawings which serve to illustrate but not tolimit the invention as defined by the following claim:

I claim as my invention:

A file drawer or the like, having in combination a movable bottomsupporting contents of said drawer,

said movable bottom resting in raised position below the top of saiddrawer on two flat supporting walls being provided with hingespermitting the folding of said supporting walls under said movablebottom, said folding being effected by bars hinged to said supportingwalls extending above said movable bottom and hinged to each other andto a handle operating the raising and lowering of said movable bottom.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,934,370 Mirabella Nov. 7, 1933 2,071,930 Hunter Feb. 23, 1937 FOREIGNPATENTS 39,727 Germany Nov. 17, 1886 358,976 Great Britain Oct. l2, 1931607,482 Great Britain Aug. 31, 1948

